What is the real difference between Tags and categories

virgohippy · 2009-08-21, 01:42 PM

Tags are more organic, categories are more of a long-term organizational architecture.

The biggest advantage of tags is that they can be added on demand and dropped when no longer in use. They're a quick and dirty way to organize content, very much in line with the way people tend to think anyway. Especially handy when you have multiple authors who might not know how to "categorize" from a list of available categories, but can easily assign "keywords" or "tags" to a piece of content.

Note, some tag search engines (like technorati) see this url structure "domain.com/tags/sometag" as a tag page.

2009-08-21, 01:42 PM	#2
virgohippy Madness is like gravity. All it takes is a little... push. Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: California Posts: 1,679	Tags are more organic, categories are more of a long-term organizational architecture. The biggest advantage of tags is that they can be added on demand and dropped when no longer in use. They're a quick and dirty way to organize content, very much in line with the way people tend to think anyway. Especially handy when you have multiple authors who might not know how to "categorize" from a list of available categories, but can easily assign "keywords" or "tags" to a piece of content. Note, some tag search engines (like technorati) see this url structure "domain.com/tags/sometag" as a tag page. __________________ ~Warm and Fuzzy.